The Healthy Cities Mobility Impact Module (MIM) enables cities and transport authorities to evaluate the impact of mobility projects on health and quantify their economic benefits. Co-developed with Barcelona’s Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM), it expands and tailors the tried-and-tested Healthy Cities Generator tool to assess mobility-specific interventions (e.g. public transport and cycling upgrades, and low-emission zones).
The evidence-based module estimates how mobility interventions affect environmental, physical and mental health, quantifies gains in life expectancy and healthcare cost savings, and empowers planners and decision-makers to achieve healthier, more sustainable cities.
In the short term, the Healthy Cities Mobility Impact Module will enhance health-based mobility planning in Barcelona metropolitan area by piloting the module to support ATM’s ongoing efforts. In the medium term, it will be scaled to other European metropolitan areas, ultimately transforming how cities understand and communicate the health and economic benefits of sustainable mobility.
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Despite extensive evidence of the link between mobility and health, cities lack the resources and tools to easily assess the health impact of mobility interventions.
The project seeks to quantify the wider health and economic impact of mobility actions, going beyond physical activity and environmental improvements.
Applied in collaboration with ATM, MIM will support healthier mobility systems across Barcelona province through testing of the module in two real-world use cases.
